Talk:List of streetcar lines in Brooklyn/Depots
1896 list (partial?)
[edit]The following is from "Militia in the Strike". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 14 June 1896. p. 26.; the actual names are from other sources.
- Car houses
- Reid near Fulton
- Ralph and Atlantic
- Gillen Place (west of Fanchon Place) and Jamaica Avenue
- 3rd Avenue and Atlantic (office and stable)
- Depots
- Bergen Street Depot, Bergen between Troy and Albany
- 5th Avenue and 24th Street
- Ninth Avenue Depot, 9th Avenue and 20th Street
- 7th Avenue and 20th Street
- Butler and Nostrand
- Bergen and Albany
- 5th Avenue and 36th Street
- Franklin Avenue Depot?, Franklin and Greene
- Flushing Avenue Depot, Flushing between Nostrand and Marcy
- Myrtle Avenue Depot?, Myrtle near Broadway (depot and repair shop)
- Ridgewood Depot?, Gates, Wyckoff, and Palmetto
- Gates Avenue Depot, Gates and Ralph
- Halsey Street Depot, Halsey and Putnam [just west of Broadway]
- East New York Depot, Broadway and Jamaica
- Fulton near Brooklyn
- Flatbush and Vernon
- 58th Street Depot, 3rd Avenue and 58th Street
- Hamilton and Bush
- Fulton and Tompkins? (doesn't say what it is)
- Nostrand and Carroll
- Nostrand and Park
- Crosstown Depot, Manhattan and Box
- Richards and Coffee
- Meeker and North Henry
- State near Furman
- Ridgewood Depot?, Myrtle and city line
- Power houses
- 3rd Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets
- 2nd Avenue and 52nd Street
- Kent and Division
- 58th Street and 2nd Avenue
- Herkimer Street (electric station)
- Hudson Avenue (electric station)
- Wyckoff and Woodbine
- Other
- 3rd Avenue and 25th Street (shop)
By company
[edit]- east side of Third Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets (depot)
- east side of Nostrand Avenue on both sides of Carroll Street; later between Carroll and President Streets
- Crosstown Depot, west side of Manhattan Avenue between Box and Clay Streets (depot)
- east side of Franklin Street between Freeman and Greene Streets
- southeast corner of Meeker Avenue and Henry Street (depot)
- south side of Flushing Avenue a bit west of Marcy Avenue (depot), opened 1886[1]
- north side of Myrtle Avenue between Lewis Avenue and Broadway (stables)
- south side of Myrtle Avenue a bit east of Harman Street (depot)
- south side of Fulton Street a bit west of Brooklyn Avenue (depot; stable on south side of Herkimer Street); later only the latter (south side of Herkimer Street halfway between Brooklyn and New York Avenues)
- between Quincy Street and Gates Avenue a bit east of Throop Avenue
- Halsey Street Depot, north side of Halsey Street a bit east of Saratoga Avenue, opened November 4, 1885[1]
- 52nd Street Depot, between Second Avenue and East River, between 52nd and 53rd Streets (power house and repair shop)
- 58th Street Depot, between Second and Third Avenues, between 58th and 59th Streets
- Flatbush Depot, south side of Avenue N between 49th Street and Utica Avenue
- Fresh Pond Depot
- Maspeth Depot
- Ridgewood Depot
- Vernon Avenue Depot, north side of Duryea Place between Flatbush Avenue and Bedford Avenue
- Third Avenue Depot, at Atlantic Avenue?
- Fifth Avenue Depot, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, between 23th and 24th Streets
- Seventh Avenue Depot, east side of Seventh Avenue between 19th and 20th Streets
- Ninth Avenue Depot; Prospect Park and Coney Island Depot, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, between 19th and 20th Streets (PP&CI, leased by NERR)
- Bergen Street Depot, between Bergen and Dean Streets a bit east of Albany Avenue
- Butler Street Depot
- Crosstown Depot
- South Brooklyn Central Depot, north side of Bergen Street a bit east of Classon Avenue (depot)
- southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 27th Street (BB&CI depot)
- Nassau Electric Railroad (new)
- Canarsie Depot, south side of New Lots Road (realigned into Hegeman Avenue) between Chester Street and Rockaway Boulevard
- Ulmer Park Depot
- west-northwest corner of Broadway and Ellery Street (stables)
- East New York Depot, northeast corner of Gillen Place (west of Fanchon Place) and Jamaica Avenue, plus a much larger area (labeled BRT)
- Franklin Avenue Depot?, northwest corner of Franklin Avenue and Warren Street (Prospect Place), original depot from 1871[2]
- between Braxton Street (Windsor Place) and 15th Street, west of Coney Island Avenue
- DeKalb Avenue Depot?, south side of DeKalb Avenue a bit east of Yates Avenue (Sumner Avenue) (depot)
- 39th Street Depot, between Second and Third Avenues, between 38th and 39th Streets
- west side of Van Brunt Street between Verona and Delavan Streets (car house)
- Unknown
- east side of Fifth Avenue between 36th and 37th Streets (BRT elevated depot)
- south side of Wyckoff Avenue between Palmetto and Madison Streets (BRT)
- bounded by Hamilton Avenue, Bush Street, and Smith Street (BRT)
- east side of Smith Street between Ninth Street and Mill Street (Garnet Street) (BRT)
- between Third Avenue and canal, between First and Second Streets (BRT power house)
- Williamsburg Power House, west side of Kent Avenue between Division Avenue and Rush Street (BRT)
- 65th Street Depot?, between First and Second Avenues, between 63rd and 65th Streets (BRT yard)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Quick Travel". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 7 January 1886. p. 1.
- ^ "The Newest of the City Railroads". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 23 October 1871. p. 2.